About this title: Emily Hitchcock Terry (1838-1921) was the scientifically and aesthetically gifted daughter of a highly intellectual and artistic Massachusetts family. An early graduate of Mount Holyoke College, she began her formal study of art at The Cooper Union in New York City in 1865, where her training in drawing and watercolor painting was influenced by the Pre-Raphaelite movement. In 1872 Terry moved to Minnesota, where she was an avid plant collector and painted the flora she saw. Rather than creating a conventional herbarium of pressed specimens, she created instead a "painted herbarium". Terry's ...
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Description: Univ. Of Minnesota Press, c1992, hardcover, 11x7-1/2", tan end; Papers, beautiful color plates, indexed, clean, bright and solid, NEW and UNREAD, in a bright NEW dustjacket, in a new clear mylar DJ cover. A beautiful copy you will be happy to own! read more
Description: University of Minnesota Press, 1992, Hardback, 1st ed, small quarto (7 ½ x 11) 194pp, 46 full-page color plates and numerous additional color and Black and White drawings, photographs, sketches and maps. As biography, art, and book design, this is singular. Trained in New York City, versed in the pre-Raphaelite canon, Terry moved to Minnesota in 1872, where she was an avid plant hunter and painter of the flora. Her watercolors are the earliest known botanical illustrations of the state, but the ... read more
Binding: Cloth Hard Back
Publisher: University of MN Press, Minneapolis
Date Published: 1992
Description: Fine. Fine Dust Jacket. Tall 8vo. (14)194pp. Indexed. Notes. Descriptive catalog. 46 color plates and numerous other illustrating, mostly documenting flora of MN area. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780816621538ISBN:0816621535
Description: Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. First Edition. NF/NF. Hardcover, green cloth with gilt titles, DJ, 194 pp, 46 color plates, quarto, very light edgewear to DJ, else a clean and crisp copy. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780816621538ISBN:0816621535
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. 4to. xiv, 194pp, 46 full-page platels, descriptive catalog of the paintings, index, illustrated end-papers. Page edges very lightly foxed, otherwise both book and jacket are in Near Fine condition. Or green cloth boards in dust-jacket. read more
Edition: First edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780816621538ISBN:0816621535
Description: New in new jacket. ISBN: 0816621535. [4to] xiv.194p. ill. (b/w & col. -plates. map. ) biblio. index. New in dj protected against wear and tear in Brodart Archival Mylar. read more
Edition: First Trade Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University of Minnesota, Mpls., MN
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780816621538ISBN:0816621535
Description: Fine ++ in As New jacket. Beautiful publication, with stunning color reproductions on satin-like paper; no tears, damage or shelfwear. Text missed as "as new" rating because of the following inscription: "To Lynne, your 1993 valentine, Love, Dad". read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1992, 1st edition
Description: pp. xiv, 194, 48 full page color plates, numerous other photos and color text-figures. Publisher's green cloth, gilt-lettered, DJ, sm 4to. The illustrated presented in this work represent the earliest botanical art made in the state of Minnesota. Fine (as new) copy. read more
Edition: FIRST EDITION
Binding: HARDBOUND
Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS, MINNEAPOLIS
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780816621538ISBN:0816621535
Description: EMILY HITCHCOCK TERRY. NEW in NEW jacket. FLOWERS, COLOR PLATES THIS BEAUTIFUL DIFINITIVE FIRST EDITION ON THE WORK OF ARTIST EMILY HITCHCOCK TERRY (1838-1921) IS LOADED WITH COLOR PLATES AND REPRODUCTIONS AND INFORMATION ABOUT THIS GREAT AMERICAN ARTIST. COMMENTARY WRITTEN BY BEATRICE SCHEER SMITH. PUBLISHED AT $75. THIS IS A NEW COPY AT 1/3 RD THE PRICE AT TIME OF PUBLICATION. THE QUALITY OF THIS BOOK IS ASTONISHING AND T HE COLOR IS WONDERFUL. PRICED LOW TO MOVE QUICKLY. read more
Edition: FIRST EDITION
Binding: HARDBOUND
Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS, MINNEAPOLIS
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780816621538ISBN:0816621535
Description: EMILY HITCHCOCK TERRY. NEW in NEW jacket. FLOWERS, COLOR PLATES THIS BEAUTIFUL DIFINITIVE FIRST EDITION ON THE WORK OF ARTIST EMILY HITCHCOCK TERRY (1838-1921) IS LOADED WITH COLOR PLATES AND REPRODUCTIONS AND INFORMATION ABOUT THIS GREAT AMERICAN ARTIST. COMMENTARY WRITTEN BY BEATRICE SCHEER SMITH. PUBLISHED AT $75. THIS IS A NEW COPY AT 1/3 RD THE PRICE AT TIME OF PUBLICATION. THE QUALITY OF THIS BOOK IS ASTONISHING AND T HE COLOR IS WONDERFUL. PRICED LOW TO MOVE QUICKLY. read more
Edition: FIRST EDITION
Binding: HARDBOUND
Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS, MINNEAPOLIS
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780816621538ISBN:0816621535
Description: EMILY HITCHCOCK TERRY. NEW in NEW jacket. FLOWERS, COLOR PLATES THIS BEAUTIFUL DIFINITIVE FIRST EDITION ON THE WORK OF ARTIST EMILY HITCHCOCK TERRY (1838-1921) IS LOADED WITH COLOR PLATES AND REPRODUCTIONS AND INFORMATION ABOUT THIS GREAT AMERICAN ARTIST. COMMENTARY WRITTEN BY BEATRICE SCHEER SMITH. PUBLISHED AT $75. THIS IS A NEW COPY AT 1/3 RD THE PRICE AT TIME OF PUBLICATION. THE QUALITY OF THIS BOOK IS ASTONISHING AND T HE COLOR IS WONDERFUL. PRICED LOW TO MOVE QUICKLY. read more
Edition: FIRST EDITION
Binding: HARDBOUND
Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS, MINNEAPOLIS
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780816621538ISBN:0816621535
Description: EMILY HITCHCOCK TERRY. NEW in NEW jacket. FLOWERS, COLOR PLATES THIS BEAUTIFUL DIFINITIVE FIRST EDITION ON THE WORK OF ARTIST EMILY HITCHCOCK TERRY (1838-1921) IS LOADED WITH COLOR PLATES AND REPRODUCTIONS AND INFORMATION ABOUT THIS GREAT AMERICAN ARTIST. COMMENTARY WRITTEN BY BEATRICE SCHEER SMITH. PUBLISHED AT $75. THIS IS A NEW COPY AT 1/3 RD THE PRICE AT TIME OF PUBLICATION. THE QUALITY OF THIS BOOK IS ASTONISHING AND T HE COLOR IS WONDERFUL. PRICED LOW TO MOVE QUICKLY. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University Of Minnesota Press
Description: ]; xiv, 194, frontis (port), 46 color plates, other illus in color and bw, descriptive catalogue of Terry's paintings. orig cloth, dj, fine. Terry moved to Minnesota in 1872, where she was an avid plant hunter and painter of the flora. Her watercolors... 045827. read more
Binding: Hard Back
Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS, MINNEAPOLIS
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780816621538ISBN:0816621535
Description: New in New jacket. ART / BIOGRAPHY / HERBS. 7 1/2''-11 1/4'' Tall. Text contains biography of a great artist and painter, Emily Hitchcock Terry. Illustrated with beautiful color reproductions of plants of Minnesota, in bloom, most of which are wildflowers, in full page plates. Also illustrated with b&w photos and color maps. Hardbound, green cloth over boards, with cream dust jacket both in "NEW" condition. In original shrinkwrap, unopened. No markings. 194 pages. read more
Binding: Hard Back
Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS, MINNEAPOLIS
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780816621538ISBN:0816621535
Description: New in New jacket. ART / BIOGRAPHY / HERBS. 7 1/2''-11 1/4'' Tall. Text contains biography of a great artist and painter, Emily Hitchcock Terry. Illustrated with beautiful color reproductions of plants of Minnesota, in bloom, most of which are wildflowers, in full page plates. Also illustrated with b&w photos and color maps. Hardbound, green cloth over boards, with cream dust jacket both in "NEW" condition. In original shrinkwrap, unopened. No markings. 194 pages. read more
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. Hard bound in dust cover both in very good condition. Cover and page edging and leaves are all clean. This book is still wrapped in the shrink wrap. read more
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